Last week, it was Eric “Bruce (Hector) Banner” as the villain of the piece.

This week it’s two essential members of the crew, Sulu and Scotty.

MTV News reports John Cho has been cast as Sulu. Cho is the guy whose character made a certain acronymn part of the American lexicon in the “American Pie” films.

What really puts my phaser on stun, though, is the casting of Simon Pegg as Scotty. Pegg played the title character in the greatest romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com) of all time, “Shaun of the Dead.” Anyone who thinks Pegg can’t do serious, needs to re-watch the last 30 minutes when the film goes very dark, very fast.

My internal meter just went from “politely excited” to “quite excited.”